Wikidata: Celebrating Women Latin Americanists in the Knowledge Base

Abstract

The gender disparity across the Wikimedia ecosystem of projects continues to be prevalent. Wikidata, a project that is part of this ecosystem of free and open projects, offers a relatively low barrier for contributing content that can have an impact beyond these platforms. For instance, Wikidata’s data has been used to populate knowledge graphs as well as train large language models (LLM). In this workshop, you will learn about Wikidata and the tools/services available for contributing, visualizing, and querying data. We will focus on contributing data about women Latin Americanists which will serve as a step toward helping bridge the gender divide, enhancing the representation and visibility to this demographic group, as well as improving results in search engines. Participants are encouraged to bring names and biographical data of women Latin Americanists to contribute to Wikidata.